Sentences with phrase «like fuel oil»

He said he once got a striped bass that tasted like fuel oil, and when he cooked a needle fish the bones turned green.

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More than half of the world's oil fuels transportation like cars, trucks, and planes.

Fourth - quarter profits in Exxon's downstream sector, which is focused on refining crude oil into fuels like gasoline, also rose $ 323 million from a year earlier.

He cited automobile fuel's propensity to rise even when crude oil falls, due to refinery problems like a recent ValeroEnergy outage.

The drivers behind OPEC's forecast include steadily rising economic activity around the world, strong demand for transportation fuels like gasoline and jet fuel and a growing petrochemical industry, which turns byproducts from oil and natural gas into chemicals.

Instead of a world dominated by renewable sources of power like wind and solar — as people concerned about the dangers of climate change would hope — PE execs see gas, oil and even coal as a substantial component of electricity and fuel sources in 2039, according to recent interviews conducted by CNBC.com on the future of energy as part of CNBC's 25th anniversary.

Papa's comments on Tuesday were a stark contrast to the tone of cautious optimism at the conference, where many executives claimed that data analytics and technology, like machine learning, will improve efficiency in the oil patch and fuel further gains.

But that volatility, as Ghosh likes to note, is the upside of the integrated nature of the company, which gives it a continued hedge against the differential in world oil prices through its downstream and midstream assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude - oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude oil, and marketing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.

For airlines it also affects things like average seat prices (eg Ryanair, which has large exposure to UK market but reports in euros), and fuel costs, as oil is priced in dollars.

Bank revenues from commodities trading have soared since 2003, fueled by increasing global demand from emerging markets like China and India, requiring more oil, metal and raw materials.

In recent years, oil and gas majors like Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell have invested billions of dollars into LNG projects in countries like Australia and Qatar, while further vast sums have been spent on plants that turn LNG back into gas in consuming countries, all in the belief the world's need for the fuel would rise rapidly — especially as countries, particularly in Asia, sought to move away from more polluting -LSB-...]

Chevron's refining business, which processes crude oil into fuels like gasoline, saw profits surge 70 percent from last year to $ 1.8 billion.

The prices at petrol pumps of state - owned fuel retailers like Indian Oil Corp (IOC) were cut by 1 - 3 paisa every day in the first fortnight of December 2017 before Gujarat went to polls.

Much of this energy still comes from the burning of fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas, which release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere and contribute to extreme weather patterns that imperil everyone on earth — especially our food producers.

Just think of it as fuel for your body — it keeps your insides lubricated and running like a well - oiled machine.

Also, paper mills have shifted their fuel sources further away from non-renewable fossil fuel sources like oil and coal.

You must know the state of your car before taking it out on the road (you do things like opening the bonnet and checking the oil, gas / fuel, hydraulic, water level, headlamps etc.).

Curiously, the hike in the price of kerosene came at a time when the price of crude oil had dropped to record low, with the price of petroleum products, such as kerosene, fuel and diesel, among others, dropping significantly in a number of countries, like the United States.

«For years, through a campaign of scare tactics and misinformation, the oil and gas industry has made expanding fossil fuel infrastructure seem like the only choice,» he said.

Cuomo administration officials also said it would be difficult to abruptly transition from oil and gas to cleaner fuels without a bridge fuel like nuclear power.

A fuel duty regulator, a position Plaid would like to instate, would have prevented motorists from enjoying the recent benefits of lower crude oil prices, as it would have increased the fuel duty.

Cuomo administration officials also say it would be difficult to abruptly transition from oil and gas to cleaner fuels without a bridge fuel like nuclear power.

She is part of a team that helps to ensure oil and gas are produced safely and efficiently, and then processed and manipulated to make useful products, like fuel.

The fiber and fuel derived from hemp would be carbon neutral and as such wouldn't contribute to global warming — and in fact could help mitigate rising temperatures by replacing chemical - intensive crops like cotton and imported fossil fuels like oil and gas.

KERRY: The senator has proposed «a new Manhattan Project to make America independent of Middle East oil in 10 years» by increasing the use of alternative fuels like ethanol and insisting that standards for auto mileage be raised.

It is the nation's first dedicated biorefinery, employing high heat to turn plant matter into oil, followed by chemical catalysis to upgrade that oil into a usable fuel, just like the much larger refinery down the road.

«Oil companies have processes to turn this [syngas] into gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel,» said Rich Masel, CEO of Dioxide Materials and a retired professor, pointing out how companies like BP PLC have operated synthetic fuel facilities for 20 years, albeit using natural gas instead of recycled carbon as a feedstock.

Oil companies are coming up with strategies to convert natural gas into liquid fuels like gasoline and home heating oil — at prices below $ 20 a barrOil companies are coming up with strategies to convert natural gas into liquid fuels like gasoline and home heating oil — at prices below $ 20 a barroil — at prices below $ 20 a barrel.

Fuels derived from natural gas burn more cleanly than those derived from crude oil because they don't contain components like nitrogen, sulfur, or carbon arranged in rings, which are notorious air pollutants.

There is already a framework in Antarctica for some environmental provisions, like a ban on heavy fuel oil, he said.

There is always going to be some local need for fossil - based fuels, you know, in industrial processing or some things you just can't do with electricity, but by and large, right, if you wanted to try to replace those sorts of applications with biofuels and things like that, then you could be off oil altogether.

Fluid injection can occur with conventional oil and gas extraction methods, which extract fuel from underground pools, and with unconventional methods like fracking, which recover oil and gas from small voids in rocks.

Because the process makes a blend of hydrocarbons, it does not lack the aromatic compounds that seal aircraft engines, like the biojet fuel produced from camelina oil by UOP.

Mandates like the U.S. renewable fuel standard, which calls for production of 36 billion gallons per year by 2022, are useful in promoting low - carbon fuels, like waste vegetable oil for biodiesel, said Malins.

Plantation forestry is the key rather than the usual approach of cutting emissions by reducing the rate of using carbon fuels like coal, oil and gas.

Mercury is a neurotoxin that settles into the ocean in large concentrations after we spew it out of industrial smokestacks when burning fossil fuels like coal and oil.

Burning fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil to heat and cool our buildings and run our vehicles takes a heavy toll on the environment, contributing significantly to both local problems like elevated particulate levels and global ones like a warming climate.

Many current energy debates have focused on the massive carbon footprint of fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas.

Global fossil - fuel emissions, like the CO2 emitted from the natural - gas flare at this North Dakota oil well, could show a decline this year, says a Stanford - led Global Carbon Project report.

But rather than searching for ways to stretch the oil we still have — like a modern Hanukkah — it makes more sense to accelerate development of clean alternatives such as electric cars or biofuels from algae — and avoid dirty ones like turning coal or tar sands to liquid fuels.

AltAir does better by sourcing its bio — jet fuel from oil seed — bearing plants, like camelina, but that limits the amount that can be planted in rotation with food crops like wheat given constraints on the amount of land available for the latter.

All the while, low prices for fossil fuels like oil and coal are undermining incentives for clean energy deployment.

Trump's energy plan reads like a wish list from the fossil fuel industry: it envisions unfettered oil, gas and coal development as a path to national prosperity and energy independence.

Gas, like oil, is a fossil fuel, but it burns cleaner.

Glover and other executives said they think the approval process will be smooth because after processing plant oils, «We leave a hydrocarbon that looks exactly like petroleum fuel,» said Jennifer Holmgren, the general manager of renewable energy and chemicals at UOP, the company that derived the plant - oil refining and processing treatment for the Air New Zealand, Continental and Japan Airlines test flights.

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But optimizing energy production depends on understanding and perfecting the use of catalysts, which cause chemical reactions that break down the molecules of raw materials like oil to create fuel such as gasoline.

It can be used to convert CO2, or carbon dioxide, into useful items like biodegradable plastic products, medications, or fuel sources; as such, this would essentially eliminate the need of having to travel to various locations to dig up fossil fuels, like oil or coal.

«We were studying agostic bonds in a project to make liquid fuels like methanol from carbon dioxide to replace fuels we get from oil,» said chemist Morris Bullock at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Today, photosynthesis is considered «the most important chemical reaction on earth», providing food for humans and animals, releasing oxygen for them to breathe — and millions of years later, this process provides fossil fuel in the form of oil, coal and natural gas, as Michel likes to point out.